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A  Miracle  in  Hotel  Building 


BEING  THE  STORY  OF 
THE  BUILDING  OF  THE 
NEW  CANYON  HOTEL 
IN  YELLOWSTONE  PARK 


By  J.  H.  RAFTERY 


FULL  PAGE  ILLUSTRATIONS  BY  F.  J.  HAYNES 


PUBLISHED  BY 
YELLOWSTONE  PARK  HOTEL  COMPANY 


Yellowstone  National  Park  in  Winter 


An  Order  for  Nails. 

ARLY  in  January,  1911,  in  the  heart  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  eight  thousand  feet  above  the  sea  and 
nearly  forty  miles  from  the  nearest  railroad,  I  saw 
the  first  "order"  prepared  on  the  range  of  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  perfect  hotel-kitchens  in  the  world. 
The  "order"  was  for  nails,  hot  nails,  nails  by  the 
quart  and  by  the  gallon,  piping  hot,  big  and  little, 
brads  and  spikes,  ten-pennies  and  shingle-nails,  while 

from  the  walls,  inside  and  out,  from  the  sub-cellar  below,  and  from  the 

acres  of  gaping  roof,  came  the  tattoo  of  the  hammers  of  a  hundred 

carpenters  clamoring  for  nails,  hot  nails  and  plenty  of  'em. 

Through  a  blinding  blizzard,  with  the  wind  blowing  a  horizontal 

gale  of  thirty  miles  an  hour,  over  thirty-seven  miles  of  almost  track- 

less   snow,    four   feet   on    the     r  1 

level,  through  mountain  gor- 

ges,    where     the     drift     lay 

packed    from    ten    to   twenty 

feet,  across  frozen  creeks  and 

rivers,  I  had  come  in  a  horse- 

drawn  sleigh  to  the  brink  of 

the     Grand     Canyon     of    the 

Yellowstone  River  in  the  Na- 

tional   Park    to    witness    the 

Titanic  winter  work  of  build- 

ing a  new  half-million  dollar 

hotel,  that  is  to  be  ready  for 

the  summer-tourist  by  June. 
From     Mammoth     Hot 

Springs,     thirty-seven     miles 

away,  where  countless  herds 

of  elk,  deer,  mountain-sheep 

and  antelope,  driven  from  the 

high  places  by  the  fury  of  the 

winter-storms,  gazed  at  us  in 

meek  and  unterrified  surprise, 

we  set  forth  in  a  two-horse 

sleigh    to    face    the    pelting, 

driven  steel-dust  of  a  moun- 

tain blizzard.     Passing  beside 

the    slopes    of    the    steaming 

waters  of  the  hot  springs,  and 

in  the  pass  above  the  Golden 

Gate,  we  met  a  slinking  coy-  FORTY.FOQT  DR[FT  AT  HEAD  QF 

ote,    bold    in    starvation    and  GOLDEN  GATE 


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fatint  as  a  skeleton,  heading  for  the  settlement  to  steal  a  meal  or 
nd  a  grave. 

Cold  Weather  and  Hot  Springs. 

In  exposed  reaches  of  the  road  the  runners  ground  and  squeaked 
over  the  bare  sand  and  rocks;  in  the  protected  denies  the  surface  of 
the  thoroughfare  was  obliterated,  lost  in  piles  of  flour-dry  snow, 
heaped  high  against  the  side-wall  of  the  canyons  and  sloping  away  in 
perilous  descent  to  the  bottom  of  the  gorges.  Here  the  big  scoop- 
shovels  came  in  play  to  open  a  passage  for  the  team  and  sleigh,  until 
at  length  the  road  descended  into  the  desolate  Swan  River  flat,  where 
the  gale  swept  in  unbridled  fury  across  an  arctic  waste  of  undulous 
snow  from  four  to  ten  feet  deep. 

For  over  three  miles  across  the  Swan  River  flats  the  road  had 
long  since  been  buried,  and  now  the  course  of  it,  winding  and  uncer- 
tain, is  marked  at  either  side  by  little  pine  trees  stuck  into  the  snow 
by  the  freighters  to  mark  the  edges  of  the  obliterated  road.  A  mis- 
step to  either  side  plunges  the  horses  floundering  into  from  four  to 
a  dozen  feet  of  snow,  for  the  only  footing  is  the  six-inch  snow-pack 
made  by  the  runners  of  the  freight-laden  sleds  creeping  slowly  over 
it  in  their  long  and  perilous  journey  from  the  railroad  station  at 
Gardiner  to  the  site  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  by  the  brink  of  the 
famous  cataract  of  the  Yellowstone. 

Sledding  Under  Difficulties. 

Low-pitched,  six-horse,  cumbrous  sled-wagons,  manned  by  stal- 
wart, brave  and  skilful  freighters,  grind  and  crawl  over  the  almost  in- 
credible difficulties  of  this  arctic  trail.  All  this  winter  they  have  been 
hauling  lumber,  hardware,  cement,  tiling,  doors,  windows,  bath-tubs, 
tools,  machinery,  supplies  for  men  and  horses.  Ten  million  pounds 
in  all  they  hauled  through  boreal  storms,  over  snow-jammed  passes, 


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across  ice-bound  rivers,  along  the  dizzy  brinks  of  narrow  cliff-trails, 
and  with  the  thermometer  seldom  above  zero  and  ranging  down  to 
forty  degrees  below. 

A  Task  for  Titans. 

Some  task  this,  to  build  in  a  winter  wilderness  the  grand  chateau 
that  is  to  delight  the  summer  holidays  of  the  tourist  who  visits  the 
Yellowstone  National  Park  during  the  brief  season  of  its  verdant 
glory.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  men,  hardy,  alert,  emulous  and  un- 
daunted, have  been  fighting  with  the  frost  and  blizzard,  bucking  the 
snow-drifts  and  freezing  their  fingers  and  toes  in  this  far  place  all 
winter  long,  to  the  end  that  one  of  the  most  remarkable,  extensive, 
beautiful  and  complete  summer-hotels  in  the  world  may  be  ready 
and  running  for  the  approaching  season. 

There  is  something  in  this  very  task,  as  I  witnessed  it,  that  is 
in  rugged  harmony  with  the  titanic  proportions,  the  heroic  dimen- 
sions, the  indescribable  majesty  of  the  scenes  by  which  it  is  sur- 
rounded. Down  from  the  divide  between  the  valley  of  the  Yellow- 
stone and  the  Gardiner  rivers,  out  of  the  endless  aisles  of  snow-draped 
towering  pines,  we  crept  through  the  blinding-white  snow  on  a  Sunday 
afternoon.  The  storm  had  ceased;  the  last  cloud  had  disappeared  to 
the  north  behind  the  crenelate  peaks  of  the  Gallatin  range,  and  the 
evening  sun,  in  cold  but  dazzling  radiance,  was  almost  touching  the 
high  horizon,  when  our  sleigh  lurched  into  view  of  the  new  Canyon 
Hotel. 

Hard  at  Work  in  Mid-winter. 

A  January  Sunday  evening,  nearly  eight  thousand  feet  above 
sea-level,  the  mercury  at  forty  degrees  below  zero,  civilization  thirty- 
seven  miles  away,  across  a  wilderness  of  shining,  snow-clad  moun- 
tains, I  saw  my  first  glimpse  of  the  new  "summer-hotel."  Even  be- 


'SAVAGES    RETREAT"— MEETING    PLACE    HALF    WAY    BETWEEN 
MAMMOTH    AND    NORRIS 


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fore  we  had  emerged  into  full  view  of  it,  we  heard  the  volleys  of 
clattering  hammers,  their  cadences  rising  and  falling  like  the  scatter- 
ing reports  of  muffled  musketry.  For  they  worked  on  Sunday  all 
through  the  winter,  and  they  reared  the  walls  and  roofed  them  over 
when  their  fingers  were  numb  and  their  breaths  froze  in  their  beards ; 
they  fumbled  through  banks  of  floury  snow  for  the  lumber  and 
shingles  and  sacked  cement ;  and  they  spent  time  in  the  hospital, 
where  the  trained  nurses  thawed  out  and  treated  their  frost-bitten 
faces  and  members.  And  that  is  the  reason  why  the  first  dish  served 
from  the  newly  installed  kitchen  ranges  was  hot  nails. 

For  the  hauling  of  a  carload  of  freight  each  day  for  the  rapid 
building  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  in  the  Yellowstone  National  Park, 
about  fifty  drivers  and  two  hundred  horses  were  required.  When 
the  snow-storms  set  in  with  their  full  winter  fury,  sleds  with  a  capacity 
of  three  and  four  tons  apiece  could  carry  only  2,500  pounds  or  less. 
Horses  downed  in  the  drifts,  loads  overturned,  sleds  broken,  harness 
torn  apart,  snow-slides  and  sudden  blizzards  increased  the  hardships, 
the  hindrances  and  the  perils  of  the  gigantic  task.  In  our  compara- 
tively easy  journey  through  this  strange  and  rigorous  scene,  we  passed 
snow-covered  piles  of  freight  that  had  been  set  beside  the  trail  from 
overloaded  sleighs,  waiting  to  be  hauled  almost  piecemeal  over  miles 
of  nearly  insurmountable  difficulty. 

To  Make  a  Summer  Holiday. 

The  two  regiments  of  men  who  spent  the  winter  of  1910-11 
building  this  marvelous  mountain  hotel  have  been  practically  isolated 
from  the  world  for  months.  They  have  worked  always  seven  days  of 
the  week ;  they  had  no  saloon  or  club  or  theater  to  beguile  their  time 
or  bemuse  their  faculties,  and  even  for  the  younger,  pleasure-loving 
workers  there  was  no  diversion,  except  the  fierce  thrill  of  gliding  and 
coasting  on  skis  over  the  glacier-like  slopes  of  the  desolate  amphi- 


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theatre  which  surrounded  them.  There  is  probably  no  other  like 
example  of  hotel-building  in  history,  and  the  structure  which  is  the 
result,  the  scene  which  it  civilizes  without  desecrating,  the  strange 
region  which  it  adorns  without  vulgarizing  are  all  in  keeping  and  in 
singular  symmetry. 

A  Unique  Hotel. 

Unity  without  harshness,  great  size  without  ostentation,  strike 
the  beholder  with  his  first  view  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel.  Without 
yielding  anything  of  its  own  well-contained  individuality,  its  sur- 
render to  the  vast  nobility  of  the  scene  in  which  it  is  placed,  is  com- 
plete, natural  and  captivating.  Xot  of  great  height,  of  uniformly 
warm,  bright  color,  never  in  ornate  competition  with  the  landscape 
about  it,  expressive  of  repose  and  strength,  innocent  of  fantastic  pre- 
tense or  ornate  frivolity,  the  new  hotel  by  the  Yellowstone  in  the 
National  Park  is  an  architectural  triumph  of  singular  and  striking 
symmetry  with  its  natural  environs. 

The  even  apex  of  its  rambling  roof-line  is  always  uniformly 
horizontal,  and  yet  the  base-lines  of  the  foundation  cling  faithfully 
to  the  eventful  contour  of  the 
mountain-slope  in  lines  of  un- 
even and  yet  beautiful  sym- 
metry which  suggest  that  the 
architect  esteemed  obedience 
to  and  sympathy  with  the 
master  landscape  gardening 
of  Nature  herself. 

In  Harmony  With  Nature. 

When  the  summer  days 
have  come,  and  you  wish  to 
survey  this  oddly  splendid 
structure,  take  a  walk  around 
it  close  to  the  foundation 
walls.  The  distance  is  ex- 
actly a  mile ;  and  yet  the 
highest  lift  of  the  build- 
ing is  not  greater  than  the 
roof-tree  of  the  fourth  floor. 
In  every  aspect  of  the  great 
structure  you  will  find  a 
thoughtful,  even  respectful 
conformity  with  the  voiceless 
demands  of  the  scene  about 
it.  It  is  something  to  build 
within  the  nation's  famous 
wonderland  any  kind  of  a 
house  that  detracts  nothing 
from  the  noble  majestv  of  the 
surroundings;  but  to  have  HALF  WAY  BETWEEN  MORRIS  AND 


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reared  so  vast  and  beautiful  a  hotel  and,  in  so  doing,  to  have  enhanced 
instead  of  minimizing  the  splendor  of  the  view  and  the  winsomeness 
of  the  place,  is  to  have  performed  a  work  of  genius. 

Rustic  it  is  not,  in  the  sense  that  Old  Faithful  Inn  is  rustic; 
and  yet  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  of  the  Yellowstone  contains  in  its 
structural  lines,  in  the  interior  details,  an  insistent  and  yet  unob- 
trusive suggestion  of  primeval  arboreal  strength  and  beauty  that  is 
gently  expressive  of  the  forest  fastnesses  of  pine  trees  that  crowd  the 
valleys  and  crown  the  summits  of  the  neighboring  region.  Architect 
Robert  C.  Reamer,  who  also  contrived  and  constructed  the  historic 
Old  Faithful  Inn,  smiled  gravely  when  I  commented  upon  this  im- 
pressive feature  of  his  latest  and  greatest  work,  saying:  "I  built  it  in 
keeping  with  the  place  where  it  stands.  Nobody  could  improve  upon 
that.  To  be  at  discord  with  the  landscape,  would  be  almost  a  crime. 
To  try  to  improve  upon  it,  would  be  an  impertinence." 

Ideas  Sought  Afar. 

Months  of  travel  in  the  pleasure  places  of  Europe  and  the  great 
tourist  resorts  of  America  gave  to  Architect  Reamer  and  to  the  pro- 
jectors of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  many  new  and  practical  suggestions 
which  have  made  surely  for  the  composite  simplicity  and  utilitarian 
scope  of  the  edifice.  In  the  course  of  these  far-spread  visits  of  in- 
spection, it  was  found,  for  instance,  that  hotel  guests,  as  a  rule,  are 
not  apt  for  those  small  apartments  which  comprise  seclusion  as  well 
as  elegant  convenience.  The  writing-rooms,  the  reading-rooms,  the 
Turkish  smoking-rooms,  were  found  to  be  less  attractive  to  the 
average  tourist  than  the  great  lobbies,  where  to  see  and  be  seen,  to 
witness  the  proud  pageantry  of  the  guests  in  promenade,  to  study 
character  and  apparel,  to  gossip  and  to  listen  to  the  music,  seemed  the 
sum  and  crown  of  the  desires  of  the  pleasure-loving  guests. 


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To  eliminate  the  superfluous,  because  unused  public  apartments 
of  the  conventional  tourist  hotel,  prompted  the  builders  of  the  New 
Canyon  to  combine  the  beauty,  the  convenience,  the  utility,  the 
attractiveness  of  them  all  into  one  great  common-room.  The  com- 
bined allurement  and  practicality  of  the  winter-gardens  of  the  famous 
rspas  of  Europe,  were  kept  in  mind ;  the  "peacock  walks"  of  New 
York's  most  fashionable  hostelries,  the  need  of  a  great  dancing-floor, 
;a  convention-hall,  a  spacious  concert-room,  recesses  for  writing,  read- 
ing, smoking,  reviewing  the  pageant — all  of  these  usually  scattered 
essentials  of  a  modern  tourist-hotel  were  combined  in  The  Lounge, 
the  salient  feature  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  and  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable apartments  in  the  world. 

The  "Lounge." 

This  great  room  is  two  hundred  feet  long  and  one  hundred  feet 
wide,  its  great  floor  of  polished  oak  and  its  walls  and  ceiling  of  finely 
finished  red  birch.  Except  for  the  massive  alternating  pillars  that 
sustain  the  broad,  high  roof,  the  walls  of  this  huge  room  are  almost 
wholly  of  French  plate-glass.  It  extends  lengthwise  from  the  south 
front  of  the  hotel  building,  and  from  its  middle  at  either  side,  facing 
east  and  west,  are  two  spacious,  pillared  porches,  opening  through 
wide  doors  and  French  windows  onto  the  main  level  of  the  floor  of 
The  Lounge  interior.  The  north  end  of  this  Lounge  contains  the 
stage,  or  platform,  for  the  orchestra,  flanked  by  wide,  grand  staircases 
which  lead,  back  of  the  stage,  through  a  broad  open  space,  into  the 
spacious  lobby  of  the  hotel  proper. 

Nothing  Like  It  in  Europe. 

The  Lounge  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  in  the  Yellowstone 
National  Park  promises  to  become  a  famous  favorite  with  the  pleas- 
ure-seeking travelers  of  the  world.  I  think  there  is  nothing  like  it  in 
Europe ;  certainly  it  has  no  counterpart  in  America  for  size,  mag- 
nificence, spectacular  impressiveness  and  practical  comfort  combined. 
You  must  understand  that  it  projects  two  hundred  feet  from  the 
southern  front  of  the  great  hotel  of  which  it  is  an  essential  part  and 
feature.  Its  one  high  story,  whose  vast  even  floor  is  a  few  feet 
below  the  level  of  the  hotel's  main  floor,  comprises  all  of  the  utilities 
that  are  offered,  all  of  the  private  elegances  that  are  provided  in  the 
scattered,  small,  isolated  and,  usually,  stuffy,  small  apartments  com- 
monly provided  by  other  great  hotels.  From  the  open  brink  of  the 
hotel-lobby  floor,  the  eye  ranges  above  the  stage  upon  which  the 
orchestra  will  sit,  across  the  fine  perspective  to  the  southern  windows 
of  The  Lounge  and  thence  across  the  descending  landscape  to  where 
the  Yellowstone  Falls,  itself  masked  by  an  intervening  pine  wood, 
roars  and  thunders  in  its  final  descent  into  the  most  astoundingly 
picturesque  gorge  in  the  world. 

The  whole  central  floor-space  of  The  Lounge  is  at  once  a  vast 
ballroom,  promenade,  auditorium  or  theatorium.  In  the  pillar-spaced 
intervals  around  the  open  margins  of  the  enormous  room,  lighted  by 


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the  continuous  walls  of  plate-glass  by  day,  and  by  two  thousand  elec- 
tric lights  by  night,  writing-desks  and  tea-tables,  easy-chairs,  divans, 
footstools  and  rugs  will  offer  to  the  guests  the  perfection  of  privacy 
with  accessibility,  comfort  with  elegance,  aloofness  with  sociability,  in 
exactly  that  degree  which  each  guest  of  the  hotel  may  choose  for  him- 
self. The  music,  the  spectacle  of  the  dancers  and  promenaders,  the 
stir  and  interest  of  the  summer-night  throng,  will  become  unobtrusive, 
impersonal,  an  impression  rather  than  an  interruption,  in  the  bigness, 
the  roominess,  the  cosy  out-of-doorness  which  are  peculiarly  char- 
acteristic to  this  most  extraordinary  apartment. 

Recreation  in  All  Forms. 

On  the  projecting  side  porches  of  The  Lounge,  al  fresco  equip- 
ments will  be  provided,  and  there,  as  in  the  interior,  tea,  coffee  and 
other  refreshments  will  be  served  to  the  loungers  and  smokers.  The 
basement  of  this  unique  room  is  to  be  fitted  with  billiard-rooms, 
bowling-alleys  and  buffets  for  the  guests,  its  several  departments 
being  in  immediate  connection  with  the  commissary,  kitchen,  wine- 
cellars  and  conveniences  of  the  main  hotel  structure. 

The   Dining-Room. 

The  dining-room  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel  is  designed  and  built 
upon  a  scale  quite  in  keeping  with  the  conception  of  The  Lounge,  and 
the  wonderful  hotel-lobby  which  connects  them,  completing  the  trinity 
-of  common-rooms  for  guests.  The  splendid  refectory  is  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five  feet  long,  extending  east  and  west,  sixty  feet  in  uni- 
form width,  and  with  a  great  bay  upon  its  southern  front  that  is  nearly 
fifty  feet  in  diameter  and  twenty  deep  to  the  plate-glass  bow-windows 
of  its  front  elevation.  The  interior  of  this  enormous  dining-room 
has  been  treated  in  the  same  manner,  as  to  walls  and  woodwork,  as 
The  Lounge  and  lobby.  Floors  of  oak,  and  walls,  pillars,  doors  and 
casements  of  red  birch.  The  pillar,  transom,  chair  and  linen  motive 
of  decoration  is  the  branch  of  the  pine  tree  conventionalized.  This 
motive,  severe  but  characteristic,  is  carried  out  simply  and  with  quiet 
consistency  wherever  the  need  of  conservative  and  yet  decorative 
relief  is  apparent.  It  is  apparent  in  the  chair-backs,  in  the  shadowy 
transom-lattice,  in  the  pillar  capitals,  and  even  in  the  margins  of  the 
thousands  of  rugs  which  are  being  made  exclusively  for  the  new 
^Canyon  Hotel. 

The    Kitchen. 

The  size  of  the  grand  kitchen,  its  perfection  of  modern  equip- 
ment, the  estimated  extent  of  its  culinary  efficiency,  might  make  sub- 
ject-matter for  a  small  volume  in  itself.  It  is  one  hundred  and  ninety 
feet  long,  fifty  feet  wide,  with  concrete  floors,  tiled  wainscot  and 
enamel  walls,  ceilings  and  pillars.  Extending  northward  from  under 
the  roof  of  the  rest  of  the  hotel,  the  grand  kitchen  has  its  own  sky- 
lights and  ventilation,  as  has  the  guests'  laundry,  which  is  a  further 
rprojection  of  the  same  section  of  the  structure.  Beneath  this  main 


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equipment  of  the  new  Canyon  Hotel,  in  basement  and  sub-cellar,  are 
the  kitchen  and  laundry  for  the  employees,  the  boiler  and  engine  room: 
being  located  in  the  lowest  substructure,  based  in  a  great  excavation- 
into  the  rocky  side  of  the  mountain. 

The  Porte-cochere. 

The  approach  and  entrance  to  the  hotel  are  by  a  sloping,  roofed 
arcade,  which,  reaching  outward  from  the  southern  front  of  the  lobby 
like  an  outstretched  arm  of  welcome,  touches  the  widened  roadway 
of  the  grand  tour  with  a  great  porte-cochere,  where,  in  the  summer- 
time, the  trains  of  tourist-laden  coaches  will  discharge  their  pas- 
sengers. From  the  landing  platform,  the  guests  approach  the  lobby 
by  a  gradual,  tiled  incline,  beneath  which,  and  out  of  sight,  is  a  similar 
ingress,  through  which  the  luggage  is  to  be  wheeled  to  the  office  in 
rubber-tired  push-carts. 

More  than  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  have  been  expended 
for  the  portable  furnishment  of  the  hotel,  and  before  the  season  opens 
in  mid-June,  through  snow-buried  passes,  over  ice-bound  rivers,  across- 
wastes  of  frozen  drifts  and  by  the  tortuous  trails  of  nearly  forty  miles 
of  mountain  and  forest,  every  item  for  the  use  and  enjoyment  of  the- 
traveling  public  will  be  in  place  and  ready.  Then  the  arctic  desola- 
tion of  the  days  of  its  swift  construction  will  have  given  way  to  the- 
incomparable  glory  of  the  opulent  summer  in  the  Yellowstone 
National  Park ;  then  the  fur-wrapped  sled-driving  freighters  will  have- 
given  way  to  the  happy,  gallant  reinsmen  of  the  tourists'  coach. 

The  Grand  Canyon. 

Of  all  the  contrasted  and  incredibly  wonderful  regions  of  the- 
Yellowstone  National  Park,  none  clamors  so  insistently  for  long  days 
of  deliberate  inspection  as  does  that  incomparable  stretch  of  titanic 
panorama  which  reaches  from  the  Yellowstone  Lake  to  the  lower 
abysses  of  the  Grand  Canyon.  The  new  Canyon  Hotel,  the  construc- 
tion of  which,  amidst  the  rigors  of  an  arctic  winter,  I  have  attempted 
to  describe,  is  situate  in  the  heart  of  the  most  opulently  varied  land- 
scape in  the  nation's  greatest  domain  of  colossal  and  portentious  won- 
ders. Other  portions  of  the  Park  may  be  visited  and  appreciated  in  a 
few  days.  The  scenes  about  the  Grand  Canyon  of  the  Yellowstone,,, 
the  wildest,  oddest,  most  awesome  and  most  grippingly  beautiful  com- 
binations of  majesty  with  tenderness,  of  savage  splendor  with  sylvan* 
loveliness,  are  scattered  here  with  the  most  whimsical  lavishness  thatt 
Nature  ever  displayed. 


